Les Tremayne
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Les Tremayne was a British-born American radio, film, and television actor renowned for his prolific radio work in the mid-20th century and numerous character roles in Hollywood films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Les Tremayne canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4471654 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Tremayne Context triple: [The War of the Worlds (1953 film), starredActor, Les Tremayne]
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A.
Richard Tremayne
Richard Tremayne is a central character in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend," depicted as a key figure entangled in espionage, conspiracy, and psychological manipulation.
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B.
Mira Grant
Mira Grant is the pen name of American author Seanan McGuire, best known for her science fiction and horror novels, particularly the Newsflesh series.
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C.
Susanna Bennett
Susanna Bennett was the wife of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu, known primarily through her marriage to the influential Victorian author.
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D.
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is an American author best known for her bestselling crime and psychological thriller novels, including the Detective D.D. Warren and FBI Profiler series.
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E.
Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is a British author best known for her psychological thriller novel "The Girl on the Train," which was adapted into the 2016 film of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Tremayne Target entity description: Les Tremayne was a British-born American radio, film, and television actor renowned for his prolific radio work in the mid-20th century and numerous character roles in Hollywood films.
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A.
Richard Tremayne
Richard Tremayne is a central character in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend," depicted as a key figure entangled in espionage, conspiracy, and psychological manipulation.
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B.
Mira Grant
Mira Grant is the pen name of American author Seanan McGuire, best known for her science fiction and horror novels, particularly the Newsflesh series.
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C.
Susanna Bennett
Susanna Bennett was the wife of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu, known primarily through her marriage to the influential Victorian author.
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D.
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is an American author best known for her bestselling crime and psychological thriller novels, including the Detective D.D. Warren and FBI Profiler series.
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E.
Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is a British author best known for her psychological thriller novel "The Girl on the Train," which was adapted into the 2016 film of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ radio actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| birthName | Lester Tremayne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-04-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-12-19 ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
motion pictures
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old-time radio ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| name | Les Tremayne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
character roles in Hollywood films
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prolific radio performances in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
North by Northwest
NERFINISHED
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One Man's Family (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Adventures of the Falcon (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Adventures of the Thin Man (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Angry Red Planet NERFINISHED ⓘ The Falcon (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The First Nighter Program NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fortune Cookie NERFINISHED ⓘ The Monolith Monsters NERFINISHED ⓘ The Monster of Piedras Blancas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Stooges Meet Hercules NERFINISHED ⓘ The War of the Worlds (1953 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The War of the Worlds (radio adaptation participation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| spouse |
Alice Reinhart
NERFINISHED
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Benay Venuta NERFINISHED ⓘ Helen Tremayne NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Tremayne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Les Tremayne Description of subject: Les Tremayne was a British-born American radio, film, and television actor renowned for his prolific radio work in the mid-20th century and numerous character roles in Hollywood films.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.